Sir with due respect I think officers like Ms Roshan Jacob should be invited and praised for doing wonderful job in their area. Also to set a target for others IAS to make their presence feel to the public by doing proactive work.
@myogiadityanath#ladysingham#roshanjacob#ias
Every video you have ever watched on a phone reached you because somebody found a way to throw most of it away.
A single minute of uncompressed video is enormous. It would not fit down a phone line, a cable, or a mobile network. Not in 1990, and not now.
The man who worked out what could be thrown away was born in a small town in Karnataka.
His name was Arun Netravali.
He was born on 26th May 1946 in Ankola in Uttara Kannada, and grew up in Matunga in Bombay. He went to King George High School, then Elphinstone College, then took his engineering degree at IIT Bombay.
In 1967 he went to America for graduate school at Rice University in Texas, and afterwards joined Bell Laboratories.
The problem he took on was this.
In a video, most of the picture does not change from one frame to the next. If a person is speaking, the wall behind them is identical in every frame. Sending that wall again, 30 times a second, is waste.
So he built algorithms that estimate how objects move across the screen, and send only what has changed.
Then he went further, and this is the part that is genuinely clever.
He studied how human vision actually works, and where the eye is bad at noticing detail. Compression always introduces small errors. He worked out how to push those errors into the parts of the picture where a human being will not see them.
The result is a video that looks correct to you while containing a fraction of the original information.
That work became the base technology for the MPEG standards, MPEG 1, 2 and 4.
Those standards are why digital television exists. Why cable and satellite television exist. Why high definition exists. Why streaming exists. Why the camera in your phone can send a video to somebody at all.
He rose to become the 9th President of Bell Laboratories, and later Chief Technology Officer at Lucent.
He holds around 100 patents. He won an Emmy in 1994 for the work on high definition television. In 2001 India gave him the Padma Bhushan. In 2001 the President of the United States gave him the National Medal of Technology. In 2017 he won the Marconi Prize.
He died in Dallas on 4th November 2021, aged 76.
The next time a video loads instantly on your phone, that is his mathematics deciding, frame by frame, what you will never notice is missing.
@ThePlacardGuy Education is the only option...from 3 years if we start teaching civic sense to all the kids then in 20-30 years we will see the change... In the short term CCTV fine may work.
@maniaUFO Simply logical thing if such videos of sea monster n UFO were real then it would have been broadcasted in national news...if not then it's 99 perc fake
@mrsinha Whatever happens is always for good, u may come to know now or maybe a few years later. Good chance to release your good leaders from Jail, try to set up democracy in the country, I mean true democracy not backed by the Army. U hv moon in flag, we hv flag in moon. Think n do...